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The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

Fake Shakespeare, sushi for charity, and the Henry throws a party.

Kim Barker

Fake Shakespeare, sushi for charity, and the Henry throws a party.

Christian Lander

Fake Shakespeare, sushi for charity, and the Henry throws a party.

Get The Gang Together For Ethan Stowell's Mob-Hit Squid

Photo by Geoffrey SmithLeslie Miller co-authored New Italian Kitchen with chef Ethan Stowell.​We're pumped to try so many of recipes in Ethan Stowell's New Italian Kitchen: Oxtail Soup with Farro and Root Vegetables, Marinated Octopus, Seared Scallops with Chanterelles and Parsnip Puree, Skill ... More >>

David Rakoff

Photo by Geoffrey SmithLeslie Miller co-authored New Italian Kitchen with chef Ethan Stowell.​We're pumped to try so many of recipes in Ethan Stowell's New Italian Kitchen: Oxtail Soup with Farro and Root Vegetables, Marinated Octopus, Seared Scallops with Chanterelles and Parsnip Puree, Skill ... More >>

Isabel Wilkerson

Photo by Geoffrey SmithLeslie Miller co-authored New Italian Kitchen with chef Ethan Stowell.​We're pumped to try so many of recipes in Ethan Stowell's New Italian Kitchen: Oxtail Soup with Farro and Root Vegetables, Marinated Octopus, Seared Scallops with Chanterelles and Parsnip Puree, Skill ... More >>

Simon Rich

Photo by Geoffrey SmithLeslie Miller co-authored New Italian Kitchen with chef Ethan Stowell.​We're pumped to try so many of recipes in Ethan Stowell's New Italian Kitchen: Oxtail Soup with Farro and Root Vegetables, Marinated Octopus, Seared Scallops with Chanterelles and Parsnip Puree, Skill ... More >>

Book Event: E. Lynn Harris' Tale of Down Low Love

After I broke the old rule and judged it by its cover, I wasn't expecting much from E. Lynn Harris' novel, Basketball Jones. Not only does the shirtless, headless cover boy seem to signal some sort of florid romance/jerk-off novel, but the dude looks more like a running back than the star forward he ... More >>

Calvin Trillin

After I broke the old rule and judged it by its cover, I wasn't expecting much from E. Lynn Harris' novel, Basketball Jones. Not only does the shirtless, headless cover boy seem to signal some sort of florid romance/jerk-off novel, but the dude looks more like a running back than the star forward he ... More >>

Azar Nafisi

After I broke the old rule and judged it by its cover, I wasn't expecting much from E. Lynn Harris' novel, Basketball Jones. Not only does the shirtless, headless cover boy seem to signal some sort of florid romance/jerk-off novel, but the dude looks more like a running back than the star forward he ... More >>

Chuck Palahniuk

After I broke the old rule and judged it by its cover, I wasn't expecting much from E. Lynn Harris' novel, Basketball Jones. Not only does the shirtless, headless cover boy seem to signal some sort of florid romance/jerk-off novel, but the dude looks more like a running back than the star forward he ... More >>

Salman Rushdie

After I broke the old rule and judged it by its cover, I wasn't expecting much from E. Lynn Harris' novel, Basketball Jones. Not only does the shirtless, headless cover boy seem to signal some sort of florid romance/jerk-off novel, but the dude looks more like a running back than the star forward he ... More >>

Slush Pile! Workplace Discontent Edition

After I broke the old rule and judged it by its cover, I wasn't expecting much from E. Lynn Harris' novel, Basketball Jones. Not only does the shirtless, headless cover boy seem to signal some sort of florid romance/jerk-off novel, but the dude looks more like a running back than the star forward he ... More >>

Feeling the Seattle Melancholy

After I broke the old rule and judged it by its cover, I wasn't expecting much from E. Lynn Harris' novel, Basketball Jones. Not only does the shirtless, headless cover boy seem to signal some sort of florid romance/jerk-off novel, but the dude looks more like a running back than the star forward he ... More >>

Krakauer's Conspicuous Silence

After I broke the old rule and judged it by its cover, I wasn't expecting much from E. Lynn Harris' novel, Basketball Jones. Not only does the shirtless, headless cover boy seem to signal some sort of florid romance/jerk-off novel, but the dude looks more like a running back than the star forward he ... More >>

I’m Outta Here

This writer’s no friend of Condi’s

My BEA Diaries

This writer’s no friend of Condi’s

On the Road

Writer follows a map of the stars to understand America. Warren Beatty for president, mon ami?

Marvelous Assortment

Absent a single hero, this epic tale of wartime destruction unfolds through scores of stories from victors and vanquished along the way.

Marvelous Assortment

Absent a single hero, this epic tale of wartime destruction unfolds through scores of stories from victors and vanquished along the way.

Leaping Lizards

How a Seattle tech company created the entire archive of the country's best magazine—for $100.

This Week's Reads

David Rakoff and Benjamin Kunkel.

This Week's Reads

Holiday Reinhorn and Vicki Constantine Croke.

This Week's Reads

Curtis Sittenfeld, Michael Cunningham, Jon Winokur, and Rudolph Chelminski.

Labor Days

Curtis Sittenfeld, Michael Cunningham, Jon Winokur, and Rudolph Chelminski.

This Week's Reads

D.B., The Dog Walker, and How Soccer Explains the World.

This Week's Reads

D.B., The Dog Walker, and How Soccer Explains the World.

Visual Literacy

Text is beside the point to some of the best books of 2003.

This Week's Reads

Azar Nafisi, Bill McKibben, Robert Stone, Lindsay Grehsam & Spain Rodriguez, and William E. Jarvis.

Po and I

How my famous Seattle classmate has masterfully reinvented himself as Version 4.0.

Book of the Year

Shakey: Neil Young's Biography—all the ragged glory and more.

Book 'Em

Capturing minds of every age with a good read.

The People's Poet

Does poetry have to be dumb to be popular?

Daughter knows best

Indian sisters venture beyond family tradition.

The drifters

Why strive when you can float through your 20s?

Book briefs

A model's life splinters; two horror greats reunite.

Have book, will travel

A Seattle author recalls life on tour

Mixed plate

Fight Club author serves up an idiosyncratic, indigestible novel.

17 Seattleites who will be big in the next 25 years

Fight Club author serves up an idiosyncratic, indigestible novel.

Read in Heavenly Peace

Indie bookstores pick the year's best gift

Girl power

Stories of the Midwest's darker side.

Writing as therapy

Or, as in this author's case, writing as therapist.

The Blue Bedspread

Or, as in this author's case, writing as therapist.

Damn you, suck.com

Your must-read shelf of geek books expands by six, or maybe five.

Tomes for the Holidays

Reference books

Dear Bill

What you should be reading this summer.

Generation Gap

The greatest generation vs. the worst.

Raising the dead presidents

It's never too late to revise a reputation—even for Ulee or Cal.

Hear here

It's never too late to revise a reputation—even for Ulee or Cal.